Those massive floods in Arkansas - 20 dead and 40 missing?

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1504
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Heavy rains in excess of seven inches fell over southwestern Arkansas overnight, triggering flash floods that killed at least twenty people in Caddo Gap, in the rugged Ouachita Mountains. Forty people are missing, according to the governor of Arkansas. The closest weather station to the disaster is Mount Ida, which recorded 7.16" of rain over the past 48 hours. The USGS is reporting that the Caddo River in Caddo Gap rose from 5 feet to 19 feet in just a few hours this morning, reaching the 3rd highest flood height on the river since records began in 1989. The Little Missouri River west of Caddo Gap rose 20 feet overnight, from 3 feet to 23.5 feet. The previous highest flood in the 22-year record at this location was just 14.66 feet, set in 2008. You can look at local rainfall amounts and river flood levels in the region using our wundermap with the "USGS River" layer turned on.

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Has this been mentioned in the news anywhere?

Does that count?

more national coverage. This reminds me of the floods in Tennessee - both have been virtually ignored because of the catastrophe in the gulf - but 20 people dead with 40 missing should be national news.

...so the intertubes ARE my "national coverage." In general, I find that news comes over my RSS feeds at least several hours before friends and colleagues begin reporting it from TV news, often a day or more earlier.

coverage' thing.

He had a woman on who lives there and she and her husband rescued an elderly couple and their grandchildren from "next door". It was raining when she went to bed and she didn't think much of it because it hadn't rained much lately. Then bam! Flash Flood! They had a couple of other people on, too. I'm not sure I've seen more than passing coverage of it elsewhere.

Also, did you know the girl who is sailing around the world has been located alive? Barely heard about that, either.

I saw that Abby Sunderland was located on BBC International this morning - lucky girl.

I didn't watch CNN - good to hear this was covered. How frightening.

n't listen to Chris Mathews have a verbal orgasm for sp.

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